Network Automation Engineer

Network Automation Engineer

Role: Network Automation Engineer

Experience: 3- 15 Years

Location: Bengaluru

Notice Period: Immediate- 15 Days

Mandatory Skills: Private Cloud & Networking skills, Ansible / Python, Golang

Network Automation Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain

  network automation frameworks

  for large-scale datacenter environments supporting AI/ML workloads.
• Build

  Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules

  to automate device configurations, software upgrades, and compliance checks across multi-vendor environments.
• Design and implement

  Python-based automation scripts and tools

  to integrate with APIs, orchestration platforms, and monitoring systems.
• Automate

  OS core networking configurations

  on servers (Linux / Windows / Hypervisor) including bonding, VLANs, routing tables, kernel network parameters, MTU tuning, and NIC performance optimization.
• Collaborate with cloud infrastructure, network engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver seamless provisioning and scaling of GPU/TPU clusters.
• Ensure network automation solutions meet

  high-performance computing (HPC)

  requirements such as low latency, high throughput, and fault tolerance.
• Participate in

  network architecture reviews

  to provide automation insights and recommendations.
• Document automation processes, workflows, and operational guidelines for the datacenter network.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies in network automation, SDN, and private cloud networking.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Expertise in Ansible

  (playbook development, dynamic inventory, custom modules) for large-scale network automation.

• Strong proficiency in Python

  for scripting, API integrations (REST, NETCONF, gNMI), and device interaction (e.g., NAPALM, Netmiko, Paramiko).
• Hands-on experience with

  high-performance datacenter networking devices

  (Cisco Nexus, Arista, Juniper, Mellanox/NVIDIA Networking).
• Knowledge of

  Linux / Windows / Hypervisor OS core networking

  , including:
• Network stack configuration (sysctl tuning, TCP/UDP parameters).
• NIC bonding, SR-IOV, DPDK, and kernel bypass techniques.
• VLANs, routing tables, MTU adjustments, jumbo frames.
• Performance tuning for HPC/AI workloads.
• Deep understanding of

  networking concepts

  including BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, MPLS, QoS, and leaf-spine architectures.
• Experience in

  Private Cloud environments

  with a focus on supporting HPC/AI workloads.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins) for deploying automation at scale.
• Knowledge of

  network observability, telemetry, and streaming protocols

  (gRPC, sFlow, SNMP, InfluxDB, Prometheus).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate in a

  high-availability, mission-critical datacenter environment

  .

Good to Have:

• GoLang

  experience for building scalable and high-performance automation tools.
• Familiarity with

  Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

  tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
• Exposure to

  Kubernetes networking (CNI plugins)

  and

  containerized workloads

  .
• Understanding of

  AI/ML workload characteristics

  and their impact on network design and performance.
• Experience with

  SDN solutions

  (e.g., Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, NVIDIA Cumulus).

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